MAC viruses
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- tactikal2
Hey my computer is going all screwey... does anybody know of any software or tests I can run on my machine to find out whether I have a virus or not. Something that I don't have to pay for would be preferable
It's a g4 powerbook, with os 10.3.4
Thanks in advance.
- auricom0
what's it doing?
- -sputnik-0
run disk warrior...not norton.
you might want to trash your preferences (found in your username's library) as well. that seems to be the root of many evils.
- tactikal20
Well first off I got a couple of suspicious looking emails with virus like attachments (which I normally don't get) and now I'm trying to open a flash file that was working fine on friday but now it says that flash doesn't have enough memory to open the scene and to allocate more memory to flash. I've allocated nearly 700mb of memory to flash but it still ain't working... which is pissing me off cause tomorrow's the deadline... and this is going to screw everything up.
- Mick0
try make a copy of the file and open it. I had weird things happen with Flash files before and this worked.
Did somebody not backup versions of their work while working on it? tut tut ;)
- motormel0
hey sputnik, why do you say disk warrior over norton?
-just curious because i just loaded norton onto my g5.
- auricom0
nortons is lame. the Virex software that comes with .Mac is better.
sounds like you just have some Flash issues, dump the preferences for it.
- brundlefly0
norton is bad, seems to make more problems that it ever solves...seems to have been this way since version 7.5
try this, I run this every time my mac gets screwy or slower, seems to be the perfect fix all!
oh and it is free.
- brundlefly0
P.S.
optimizer X will also repair your file permissions, which should fix the flash file.
there is currently no active viruses for OSX